Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1886 — Page 1

THE RENSSELAER REPUBLICAN.

VOL. XIX.

THE REPUBLICAN. ISSUED KVKBY THURSDAY BY GEO. 3=3. 'ZvC-A-HSHZ-A-X-Xj, Publisher and Pbopkiictob. OFFICE In Republican building, on corner $X Washington and Weston streets. Terms of Subscription. One year ... Six months *® Three months -A-.'— -• w. The Official Paper of Jasper Ceunfy. 'PROFESSION Alj cards.

physicians. tttt W. HARTSELL M. D., ’ HOMEOPATHIC ZETisrsiciaii. and. Svirg-eon, Rensselaer .Indiana. Chronic Diseases a Specialty-®® Office East Washington Street. 3. Jan-84. Residence, Makeover House. TAR. I. B. WASHBUFN, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Rensselaer, Indiana. Gives special attention to Diseases of Women and Children’and Chronic Diseases. Rem ember calls are promptly attended wnen Übt professionally engaged. ATTORNEYS. JIDty IN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, - - - - - Indiana. jj&s“’Office over Makeover’s Bank.,®® 17-37-ts.

J> ALPH W. MARSHALL, ATTORNEY AT LA W, Practices in Jasper, Newton and adjoining counties. Especial attention to settle meat of Decedent’s Estates, Collections, Conveyances, Justices’ Cases, Etc. Etc. Etc. Address, - - - Rose Lawn, Ind Simon P. Thompson, David J. Thompson Attorney at Law. Notary Public. ryHOMPSON & BRO., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Practice in al i tne courts. We pay particul attention'to paying taxes, selling ana leasing lands. M. L. SPITLER Collector and Abstractor -yy H. H. GRAHAM, ATTORNE Y AT LA W, Will conduct a Loan and Real Estate Bureau. Office opposite Cour house, on Washington street, formerly occupied by Frank W. Babcock, Esq., Special attention to collections and Probate business. IS-4S. JAMES W. DOUTHIT ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer. Indiana. teW-Office up stairs in Makeover’s new brick building, three doors east of Post-office. XV-46. •yyM~ W. WATSON', itiwaey - a i; up stairs iu Leopold’s Bazar. -—-—"TlEnsselaer, Ind. IyORDECAI F.~CHILCOTE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. A.ttends to all business in the profession with promptness and dispatch. Office iu second story of the Makcever buildina.

MISCELLANEOUS. T> E. QUIVEY. fl. I Dentist, Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. Artificial teeth inserted from one to an entire set. All work warranted. Oflice over WarnCrs’ Hardware Store. lb-10-ts Renspelacr, Indiana. TEA C. KELLEY 1 DENTIST, j Rf.nsski.aer, Indiana, Dr. Kelley has had thirty years’ experience in the practice of Dentistry, andrefers to his numer ous patrons as to the quality of work turned out. He uses no “Granite Teeth” nor any spurions and worthless material. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth and the natural and useful adjustment of artificial teeth. A Operations warranted, and prices to correspond with quality of work. Office over Leopold’s new st ore. . RB. DwiooiNS, F. J. Sears, Val, Seib. President. Vice President. Cashier CITIZENS’ BANK, Rensselaer Ind. Does a general'banking business; certitlcates bearing interest issued: exchange bought and sold; money loaned or farms at lowest rates and oa most favorable terms. 17-11-ts. I. ■ ; ■ John Makekver. JayW. WH.Lt am*. . • -President. Cashier. FARMERS’ BANK, Opposite I'ubhc SquaVe'&a RENSSECAER - INDIANA Receives Deposits. Buv and sell Exchange. Collections made and promptly remitted. Money Loaned, and does «'general „. r ,. . Banking Business, - XV. 4S y _—,—— _■—,———; A. McCoy. T. J. McCoy, E. L. Holllingswortli. ■ A. McCoy & Co-, Bankers, (Successors to A. McCoy A T. Thompson.) Rensselaer, Indiana. -A. bo a general banking business. Exchange bought and sold. Moricy loaned. Certifl* ’ cates bearing interest issued. Collections made oh all available points. Office same place as old firm MeCo'r £ —. XIWKBMIW -■ • • —— ;■ — *7 ~ "’.'."'-I.’ I- - -

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 30, 1886.

Locals and Personals.

Hiram Day, the plasterer, hat still another son. Born yesterday. The Francesville fair begins next Tuesday, October sth. Francesville Fair next week. Hon. W. D. Owen speaks Friday on the subject <?f? Agriculture. * Life is one long picnic to our hotel-keepers and hackmen. Trains to meet at all hours of day and night Elder R. 8. Dwiggins went up to Lowell yesterday to officiate at the funeral of a young daughter of Chas. Day witt, of that town. Married, —In Rensselaer, Ind., Friday, Sept., 24th, 1886, Mr. John F. Minikus to Miss Mary Burk. The Old Squire performed the ceremony. Zimri Dwiggins and family have just removed from Oxford to Chicago. He is general manager of the United States Loan & Trust Company and removes to Chicago in the interest of that institution. Mrs. S. J. Williams, of the vicinity of this pljace, reached home Tuesday evening from Milwaukee, Wis., where she has been staying with her daughter, Mrs. C. A. Edmonds, for the past two years, Uncle David Nowels caught a pike in the river near Mr. Clint Stackhouse’s last week, which weighed 13 pounds. Several-other big pike have been caught there lately. One by a person whose name we did not learn is said to have weighed 16 pounds. . We are sorry to have to state that Elder R. S. Dwiggins is so badly afflicted with weakness of vision as to wholly incapacitate him from his evangelical labors. He had many important appointments, in this state and Michigan, which he has been obliged to cancel. ■

Tom McCoy’s true-blue republican goat arid Mike Halloran’s white prohibitionist Billy, fought nearly all the forenoon Tuesday, but the republican butter finally won a complete victory. A. Me Coy was the chief backer of the republican animal, while Uncle John Makeever banked on the prohibitionist. - - ■ : - - __ . Some low-down scallawags got in the cellar of Mrs. S. A. Hemphill, on Front street, on Wednesday night,’ of last week, and carried off about thirty quarts of canned fruits. Similar depredations have been committed in the same vicinity heretofore, and it is to be regretted that the parties who are the perpetratorH caiL no t be caught and properly punished. It is noticeable that the mumber of persons who are having surveying done, in this county, is on the increase. People are beginning to appreciate the fact that in our present county surveyor they have a man who can do as fine and accurate work as any man in the stute. The new transit instrument, too, is as fine and accurate an instrument of its kind as can be found in any county in the state. Mr. Joshua Paris, of Hanging Grove tp., died last Saturday, at the age of nearly 65 years. He had long been in poor health but the sickness from which he died was brief, he attended the soldiers’ re-union at Delphi, two weeks ago. The cause of death was inflammation of the bowels, oy some similar malady. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon and the remains deposited in the Osborne cemetery. Mr. Paris leaves a widow and a very large family of children, the oldest of whom are of adult ige, and the youngest an infant. He was a brother o£ Berry Paris, of this place* . .

Mose Tutuer went to Chicago Monday, on business. C. R. Benjamin, 2| miles west of Rensselaer, will make a public sale to-morrow. The W. C. T. U. will meet at the residence of Mrs. Ada Yates, next Friday, at 3 o’clock. All invited. Misses Edith Miller and Mary Chilcote returned from their summer’s visit in Minnesota, last Thursday. Hon. W. D. Owen will speak at the Francesville fair, on Friday of next week, upon the subject of “Agriculture.” Mrs. Thomas A. Knox and two children, of Chilicothe, Ohio, are, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Pierce, of this place. . Messrs. Ellis & Murray, the dry goods merchants, moved into their elegant and spacious new room, in Hemphill’s new building, last Monday. The wife of Mat Yeager, a German, of Milroy tp., died Tuesday, of a puerperal hemorrhage. She leaves a husband and a large family of young children. Ed. Perkins and family removed into town, this week, and haye taken up their abode in the house Mr. Perkins lately purchased of' Mrs. Monty.— Goodland Herald. Mr. T. C. Barnes, editor of the Times a new prohibition paper just started in Logansport, was in town Tuesday and called upon The Republican. Miss Lydia Paris went to Attica last week, intending to remain for several weeks with the family of her brother, Mr. John Paris, cashier of the Citizen’s bank, of the above town. Licenses—The county clerk issued the following marriage licenses since last reported: ( John F. Minicus, | Mary Burk. j Francis E. Marion,. ( Hannah M. Davis, j John T. Snodgrass, I Martha Wood.

Advertising in a newspaper pays. Advertising on fence rails and in traveling snaps does not. If you have any doubt as to the reading of newspaper matter, put some scandalous item concerning yourself in the southwest corner of an advertising page, and note how quickly you will hear from it.— Delphi Times. Erast us Peacock, the mail route agent, reports that the train he was aboard of, ran into several detached ears of a broke-in-two stock train, last Saturday night, gave the people on the train a dreadful jolt, but hurt no one except the engineer, who j’umped off and was considerably bruised. A lot of hogs on the stock train were killed and injured. A tramp full of whiskey stopped at the house of Grandmother Kannal, on the West side, last Friday night, and while some supper was being prepared for him, he talked in an insulting and threatening manner, and Mr. Emmet Kannal thereupon caused the fellow to be arrested and put into the jail. He was sober and very repentant by noon of Saturday, and on making faithful promises to get right out of tor,n, he was released. Win. A. Binehart has bills out announcing a big sale of personal property belonging to the estate of the late Isaac Parker, of Hanging Grove tp., of which estate Mr. Binehart is administrator. The list of property to be sold is very large and includes such items as, 125 young cattle, 20 cows, 15 horses, 90 acres of corn,

100 tons of hay &c. t Ac. The date of the sale is Thursday, October 14th, at the Parker homestead.

Dance at the Opera House, tomorrow night. Mrs. A. W. Cole, of New Albany, made a short visit in Rensselaer last week. Mr. J. F. Bruner, Jlate postmaster at DeMotte, orders his paper sent to Surrey. We understand he will engage in business there. Dr. O. C. Link has just made another removal, to a larger city, this time going to Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska. Orth Stein has been taken from California to El Paso, Texas, where he will be tried on a charge of forgery. M. F. Chilcote will go to Logansport today, to attend a meeting of the Congressional central committee. , Emerson Reeve has got a steady ; ob, this time ? as night operator at Fair Oaks. He works for both roads at that place. Supt. Simon Phillips’ condition was almost desperate all day Tuesday, but by yesterday his sickness rad taken a much more favorable turn.

The old school house property has at last been sold. Grandfather Babb has brought the building and lot for SBOO, and will rebuild it into a big boarding house. Charley Benjamin’s public sale in JTewton township takes place to-morrow, beginning at 10 o’clock. A large amount of property will be sold. A broken engine on the fast mail train, of Monday afternoon, delayed that train until 9:30 p. m. and the 5:36 passenger until 10 p. m. ‘ The Cass county fair is SIOOO short this year, owing to rains and the prevalence of the diphtheria. Persons who took premiums will have the honor but no cash. Mel Laßue, of the firm of LaRue Brothers, was in Chicago last week and: bought an immense new stock of groceries; queensware &,c. Call and see them. Senator Harrison’s great opening speech, delivered at Indianapolis Sept., 15th, appears in full on one of our inside pages. It is the effort, of a great statesman and a great leader. Rollin Anderson, of Royal Center, and a brother of the cigar manufacturer of this place, has just bought the Ben. Oglesby farm in Hanging Grove tp., and will occupy the same within a short time. Married.—ln the office of the County Clerk, in the court house, in Rensselaer, Jasper county, Ind., very early Wednesday morning, Sept., 29th, 1886, Mr. John T. Snodgrass, of Jordan tp., to Miss Martha Wood, of Marion- tp. R. H. Purcupile, J. P., performing cereihony. The Valparaiso papers, the Ftdeffe and Messenger, have just introduced the rule of charging three cents per line for publishing marriage and obituary notices, cards of thanks &c. We can not wholly commend this action of our neighbors. For local papers published in small towns, where a large proportion of the readers of the paper have, in some degree, a mutual personal interest, notices of marriages and deaths are fully as interesting to the majority of readers as almost any other local news matters, and as such should be published without charge. Of course if the notices were of inordinate length a moderate charge for their publication might not be unreasonable. As for cards of thanks and similar matters which have no general interest for the public, it is no more than right ; perhaps, that they should be paid for.

Gone, but not Forgotten.

Two Burglars Break Jail and Escape.

On Friday evening of last week, about.B o’clock or a little before, Sheriff Yeoman and, family were startled by hearing’ one of the prisoners in the jail attached to the sheriff’s residence, call out to the sheriff that some of his prisoners had, just escaped. A hurried and excited examination revealed that two bars had been sawed out of the southern most window on the west side and that two of the burglars from Newton county, and who called themselves Otto Brainerd and George Winfield,- had escaped through the opening thus made. The bars were round, seven eights of an inch thick, and of wrought iron. They had been cut entirely off at their lower end, and where they entered the first crossbar above had been cut about | through and then broken out. The prisoner who gave the alarm was James Jarrell, or Gerald, of Remington. Besides him there still remain in jail the young boy who was arrested in company with the two men who escaped, and the two Smith boys, of Rensselaer. These all claim that they had no desire to escape, but if they had Jarrell’s shout to the sheriff interfered with their intentions. The men crowded out of the hole heads first, and the very instant the second of them had dropped to the gave the alarm, as himself and the other prisoners all say. They gave as their reasons for not telling of the scheme before that they feared to do so, as the men who were plotting escape threatened to kill anyone who told on them.

The work of cutting out had been going on for several weeks; the plan being to saw as the bars awhile iri the evening during the times when their fellow prisoners were making a deal of noise with their musical concerts, which have been quite frequent of late. The remaining prisoners deny all knowlege of the nature of the tool with which the bars were cut off. Froth the appearance of the cutting however, is is probable that it was done with a common table knife, which had been nicked into a rude saw, by another knife; they may have had a regular burgular’s saw, but this is not probable. The cuts in the bars were hidden through the day by filling them with a mixture of shoe blacking and soap. An excellent preparation for the purpose. Of course a vigorous effort was made to effect the recapture of the prisoners. A considerable number of men were notified and a search instituted, some parties going out on horseback and others scouting nearer on foot. The night was dark, and of course the chances were all in favor of the prisoners. Cards describing the men and offering a reward of $25 each for their recapture were printed and sent out in various directions. Various false clues were followed up, but no correct reports of the fugitives were received until too late to be of use. There is no doubt but that they stopped for breakfast, the next morning, about 7 o’clock, at the house of Nick Zimmer, about 5 or 6 miles south and two miles east of Rensselaer. About 9 o’clock the same .morning they were seen near J. J. Porter’s place, in the north end of Carpenter tp., making lively tracks for the Illinois state line, which boundary they probably crossed before they slept Saturday night These fellows are probably very bad men and habitual criminals and their escape is much to be regretted; but before anyone decides to blame Sheriff Yeoman severely in the matter they should bear in mind the great adroitness with which their scheme has been worked, and which was well calculated to deceive even the most watchful. In his efforts for, their recovery, too, the Sheriff has shown an energy and perseverance and a liberality in expenditures that is a sufficient evidence of his zeal and faithfulness as a public officer.

Go to Kannal’s for Pure Drugs and medicines cheaper than the cheapest Slates, Pencils, Pens and scratch Books, at prices below all fair competition, at Kannal’s drug •tore. ■

POLITICAL CALENDAR. Republican Appointments. At 7 O’clock, P-1£ Republican meetings will be held in the. county an* addressed as follows: ALFRED THOMPSON, ESQ. IVewton Tp, Blue Grass School house, Thursday, Oct. 7. Gillam, tp., Center School house, Saturday, Oct 9. L_. WILLIAM B. AUSTIN, ESQ. Barkley tp., Center School, house, Thursday, Oct 7. Jordan tp. Neverfail School house, Friday, Oct. 8. ' • • WILLIAM W. WA’TSON, AND MOSES B. ALTER. Union, tp., Rose Bud School house, Thursday, Oct 7. Hanging Grove, township Banta School house, Saturday, Oct 9. DR. I. B. WASHBURN. Jordan, Union (or Burr’s) School house, Saturday, Oct. 91 I.ocal Political Meeting. A local political meeting will be held in the court bouse next Saturday, at which Hon. E. P. Ham-: mond will preside, and J. F. W arren conduct the vocal music. An interesting program has been prepared, {for which see small bills. All are invited to attend the meeting. Other meetings will be for and announced at an early day.

BUSINESS LOCALS-

Go to Kannal’s Drug Store for your Wall Paper. We are selling off our stock at prices that defy competition. ■—. — My stock of Boots and Shoes is now complete in every lespect, and I would be very glad to show you goods. Ralph Fendig. Everything in the paint line, of the best material, warranted to give satisfaction, prices knocked out of time at Kannal’s. Millinery, Millinery, Ribbons, Ribbons, Plumes, Pon Pons, Bird Tips and Feathers; a trig assortment just received at Hemphill & Honan’s. - .

For Fine Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks and Skirts call at Leopold’s. The goods are fresh and new and must be sold on account of needing funds, Call and learn prices. Knowing, from personal experience that times are hard, I have decided to make prices to suit. Come in and give me a chance to prove my assertion. Emmet

Kannal has the largest assortment of books and school supplies ever offered for sale in Jasper count} 7 . They must and will be sold, cheap. Dont forget the place. Kannal’s cheap drug store. Corsets, Gloves, Hosiery, Fancy G<x)ds, Ribbons, Laces, Yarns and childrens’ underwear, at popular prices, at Hemphill <fc Honans. ’ As I am in great need of money I have concluded to continue to sell my immense stock of BOOTS and SHOES at such reduced figures that all who buy of me during the next 30 days will be greatly benefited thereby. A. Leopold. ■ • Mrs. J. M,. Hopkins, of the Millinery store, Las received the agency, for this town, of Madam Griswold’s celebrated corsets for ladies and wastes for children. The ladies of Rensselaer are requested to call at the store and examine into the merits of these goods. Parents, a word with you. As you well know the fall is here and those cold mornings and evenings are fruitful of sickness. Save * big doctor’s bill and all the worry of a sick bed by buying the children boots and shoes at once. Hemphill & Honan will treat you courteously and sell you boots & shoes as cheap as any other. Call and learn prices.

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